Mythological and fantastic elements in Yaşar Kemal's novels

The works of Yaşar Kemal, one of the most important figures of the socialist-realistic literary movement in Turkish literature, have been studied from many angles. However, in the literature research carried out, it was determined that no independent study examining the author's novels from a mythological and fantastic point of view was carried out. In this context, in the research, mythological and fantastic elements in Yaşar Kemal's novels have been tried to be identified and how they are processed in the novels have been revealed. This work, which is composed by examining all the novels of the author, consists of four parts. After a general introduction, the first section was passed. In the first chapter, the general framework of mythology and fantasy is drawn and the relationship of these two concepts with literature is stated. In the second part, the author's life and literary personality, the sources he fed in the context of mythology and fantasy were conveyed. The mythological elements in the novels examined in the third section are given in the form of subheadings. In the fourth section, the fantastic elements detected in the novels are explained in detail. In this part of the thesis, magical realism, which is closely related to the fantastic (Eng. the concept of magical realism is also mentioned. At the end of the study, it was determined that Yaşar Kemal, as a writer who feeds on folklore, reinterprets mythological and fantastic elements in his novels and uses them.